Background
Larrabee, William Henry was born on September 20, 1829 in Alfred, Maine, United States. Son of William C. and Harriet (Dunn) Larrabee.
Larrabee, William Henry was born on September 20, 1829 in Alfred, Maine, United States. Son of William C. and Harriet (Dunn) Larrabee.
Bachelor of Arts, Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) U., 1845, A.M., 1848 (Doctor of Laws, DePauw 1888). Studied law, admitted to bar, but never practiced.
Teaching and farming, 1846-1850. Clerk in office of superintendent public instruction, Indiana, 1853-1859. Assistant editor The Methodist, New York, 1862-1865, 1870-1877.
Associate editor Brooklyn Daily Union, 1865-1870. Translator for and assistant editor The Popular Science Monthly, 1879-1900. Department contributor to the Christian Advocate, New York, since 1890.
Also contributor to Kiddle & Schem’s Cyclopedia of Education, 1877. To Bishop Matthew Simpson’s Cyclopedia of Methodism, 1878. Contributor for more than 30 years to Appleton’s Annual Cyclopedia (ecclesiastical and special articles).
Contributor to New International Encyclopædia and Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia (new edit.). Author: How the World Was Made and Earthquakes and Volcanoes (in Honeyman’s Library of the Great World). History of the War in the East (with A. J. Schem), 1877.
Education Through the Agency of Religious Organizations (for President N. M. Butler’s monographs on education, edition for St. Louis Exposition, 1904). Trustee Plainfield Public Library. Address: Plainfield, New Jersey.
Married Letitia B. Frazier, June 25, 1856 (died 1909).